Deck 5: Data Collection

Question 1

There are many sources of administrative data.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Traditionally, administrative data have had three purposes: (1) to ensure that resources are not misused, (2) to determine the status of the organization's activities, and (3) to provide a record of what has been completed and accomplished.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Performance measurement usually requires that additional administrative data be collected.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Administrative data are sometimes (1) missing or incomplete, (2) inaccurately reported, or (3) subject to definitions that have changed over time.

Question 5

Administrative data are seldom used in program evaluation and forecasting.

Question 6

Secondary data are data that are collected for some other purpose.

Question 7

Secondary data are often used to describe communities and populations in statistical terms.

Question 8

Common surveys are those of citizens, clients, businesses, and employees.

Question 9

Phone surveys can ask many questions.

Question 10

Administrative data have few problems of validity.

Question 11

The results of focus groups are generalizable.

Question 12

Phone surveys are most common because they have lower response rates than mail surveys.

Question 13

A sample is a selection, such as of citizens, from an entire population.

Question 14

A representative sample is one that has characteristics similar to those of the population as a whole.

Question 15

The purpose of purposive samples is to generalize.

Question 16

The best way to draw a sample is to ensure that the demographic characteristics of the sample and the population are exactly the same.

Question 17

Generalizability means that we can generalize from the population to the sample.

Question 18

Random sampling is a method for drawing representative samples.

Question 19

The list from which a sample is drawn is called a sampling frame.

Question 20

Sampling error is the percentage by which survey results vary in 95 of 100 samples.

Question 21

Larger samples have larger sampling errors than smaller ones.

Question 22

Nonresponse bias is the extent to which views of nonrespondents differ from those of respondents.